there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

this post is about a lot of things. it's about my ex saying it was manipulative to talk to them in a cute voice because that influenced their emotions. it's also about someone on this webbed site saying being funny is "engagement farming". like yeah every single conversation you have is going to be "manipulative" if your standard for that is "did something with the goal of eliciting a response". if that bothers you go live in a hut in the forest and speak only to the trees. I'll be over here manipulating my friends into being happy by giving them compliments

what a beautiful man but☝️he could be beautifuller... guards! cover that man in blood

the scariest thing about the generative AI thing is how quickly people have accepted it as an indefinite, irrevocable part of their reality. people have genuinely convinced themselves that ChatGPT is the only solution to most tasks - tasks they did with their own brain without any large effort two years ago. like you know damn well all of us used to write emails ourselves why are we pretending like this is an impossible task to do with your own two hands. what's with the fucking. AI revisionism. i feel like i am going insane.

Good morning.

おはよう。

Color theory: there are several colors

being struck by lightning probably feels Awesome for like 0.5 seconds

ahehehehe!! Weeeeeeeeee!!! ^w^ *holding your hand and skipping with you as we are hunted for sport*

Maybe if you’re a giant floating eyeball with an exposed nerve dangling from the back you should keep out of other people’s business instead of looking around acting like everything is about you. It isn’t. It never is

goes back to medieval times

oldschool runescape music is actually playing everywhere i go

me: i knew it

(computer version of the poll)